Jordan Road Elementary School

Jordan Road Elementary School operates as a tight-knit middle school in Somers Point, New Jersey, run under Somers Point School District. Current enrollment sits at 339 students spanning grades 4 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 41% smaller than the state mean of about 578.

Within Somers Point School District, which oversees 3 schools and 684 students, Jordan Road Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Jordan Road Elementary School reports that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 32% Hispanic, 17% Black, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Jordan Road Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.6%, the actual is 23.4%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Atlantic County shows median household income runs about $78,050, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Atlantic County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students), of which Jordan Road Elementary School is one.

New York Avenue Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jordan Road Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 46.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 34%: 515 students in 2018 compared to 339 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 9.0:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Jordan Road Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.